Definition of "chaplet" in English

noun

1. A garland or circlet for the head.

2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.

3. (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.

4. (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

   • The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.

5. (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.

6. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.

7. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.

8. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.

9. Alternative form of chapelet.

noun

1. A small chapel or shrine.